Beside the key pair input area, click the “Download” button and save your key pair to somewhere you’ll remember it, such as your Documents folder. You will need to know the complete directory path to the file in text form, not just how to find it by clicking.

Get a little better MySQL config by following these instructions. For production servers, you will probably want to configure either additional or larger EBS volumes and set up snapshots by following these instructions.

sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld start

sudo /etc/init.d/httpd start

mysql -u root mysql

(On production servers, follow these instructions to set up new passwords for mysql’s root account.)

create database drupal;

grant all privileges on drupal.* to ‘drupal’@’localhost’;

set password for ‘drupal’@’localhost’ = password(‘dfsdfsdfsdfsfetc.etc.’);

flush privileges;

sudo useradd drupal

sudo chown drupal /var/www/html

sudo su drupal

pear config-create $HOME $HOME/.pearrc

pear channel-discover pear.drush.org

pear install drush/drush

In /home/drupal/.bash_profile, add ‘PATH=”/home/drupal/pear/:$PATH”‘ and ‘export PATH’; then source /home/drupal/.bash_profile